Gov. Patrick Signs Bill To Help Unemployed

Unemployed Americans line up to speak with a prospective employers at the Los Angeles Career Fair on March 23, 2010. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has recently warned jobless Americans they face a torrid year ahead, predicting continued high unemployment levels despite advances 'sometime this spring.' Speaking in Congress, Geithner said some improvements in the decimated US job market would come soon, but not enough to eat into the near double-digit unemployment that has brought the crisis into ordinary Americans' homes. He warned that more than 100,000 jobs need to be created each month to push the jobless rate down from its current level of 9.7 percent. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)